Advanced Monopellant and Bipropellant Fuel Development Support

IN Space engineers have worked with both the spacecraft engine and propellant development branches of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) on the newly formulated advanced monopropellants and bipropellant fuels. These propellants are of significant interest to the rocket propulsion community given their high specific impulses and high densities.

IN Space has supported AFRL’s development efforts by assisting in the investigation of a thermal ignition method for a monopropellant and by conducting laboratory-scale performance tests of bipropellant fuel formulations in a staged combustion thruster using hydrogen peroxide as the oxidizer.